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Looking back, I believe I can pinpoint the exact day I loved Twitter most: May 24, 2011. I was in a small Oregon town for work, coping with loneliness and stress in a shabby motel. With a 22-ounce bottle of high-proof beer, I whiled away the evening by churning out a random assortment of tweets: an article I’d read about the hunt for wild garlic in Quebec, images of an apocalyptic Los Angeles mural, my reasons for adoring the 1985 B movie American Ninja. In a reflective moment, I also managed to craft an earnest observation about my job: “The…

Let’s face it, eating is pretty pleasant—snacking on a handful of crunchy chips or slurping down a large portion of stew, then lying on the couch in a haze of sated pleasure. But spare a thought for those who live in constant dread of mealtime. Eating, for some, is extremely painful. When your digestive system doesn’t work as it should, nausea or vomiting can arrive after just a few bites. Or a badly digested meal can result in constipation, bloating, and lasting discomfort. Problems with digestion are far more common than you might think: Some 60-70 million people in the United…

After years of anticipation and contributions from thousands of people, Apple Vision Pro made its debut yesterday, promising immersion in apps, games, movies, and the workplace. With more than 20 cameras, sensors, and microphones, two processing chips, and even an external battery you carry in your pocket, it’s packed full of world-class tech, but missing an element that seems to be everywhere else right now: generative AI.

Michael Sayman has worked at Facebook, Google, Roblox, and Twitter. At 26, the software engineer has already published a memoir, App Kid. But until he began work on his latest project, he’d never built a website. “I made it in five hours over the weekend, out of frustration that there wasn’t anything like this,” he says. “Now there’s nearly a million streams on the site.”

VR headsets are having a moment. And now that Apple is making one, the things might even stick around for a while—assuming enough people actually want to wear them.

The woman in the church is really stoked about the murder she’s committing. You can see it in her eyes.

When I first caught students attempting to use ChatGPT to write their essays, it felt like an inevitability. My initial reaction was frustration and irritation—not to mention gloom and doom about the slow collapse of higher education—and I suspect most educators feel the same way. But as I thought about how to respond, I realized there could be a teaching opportunity. Many of these essays used sources incorrectly, either quoting from books that did not exist or misrepresenting those that did. When students were starting to use ChatGPT, they seemed to have no idea that it could be wrong.